David Thau

Co-Authors

Dr. Dave Thau is the senior developer advocate for Google Earth Engine, Google's
satellite image processing platform. He joined Google in 2010, bringing with him 20
years of industry experience developing Internet-based applications. Dave has created
and managed software development for Webby Award winning websites, launched two
successful startups, written a best-selling computer science textbook that has been
translated into seven languages and published scholarly papers in the field of data
management. His work has been mentioned in Newsweek, Science, Nature, USA Today, The
Economist, Rolling Stone and Wired. Over the past ten years, Dave has worked with
image databases and geospatial systems, focusing on the fields of ecology and
biodiversity. He currently works with scientists and NGOs developing software and
algorithms to run on Google's highly parallelized cloud computing image processing
framework. Dave holds degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a doctorate in computer science from the
University of California, Davis.